Should you have headed west of Reno on Fourth Street in the 1940s or â50s, you would come to an impressive complex of red-roofed buildings that included more than a dozen motel rooms, a large building housing an indoor pool, a restaurant and dance hall and an inviting outdoor pool.
Known as Lawton Hot Springs, the resort, built on a bend in the Truckee River, traced its commercial beginnings to Renoâs early years as a railroad town.
Originally known as Granite Hot Springs because the warm water poured from a large crevice in a granite cliff, it was used by the railroad as a watering spot.